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Hei Yeun Koo, Min-A Kim, Hyehyun Min, Jae Yeon Hwang, Meenakshi Prajapati-DiNubila, Kwan Soo Kim, Martin M. Matzuk, Juw Won Park, Angelika Doetzlhofer, Un-Kyung Kim, Jinwoong Bok (2023) Follistatin regulates the specification of the apical cochlea responsible for low-frequency hearing in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 120(1):e2213099120 

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